Cat's Cradle

"Cat's Cradle" is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.

The Day the World Ended

1

(1)

Nice, Nice, Very Nice

2

(2)

Folly

4

(1)

A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils

5

(3)

Letter from a Pre-Med

8

(5)

Bug Fights

13

(5)

The Illustrious Hoenikkers

18

(1)

Newt's Thing with Zinka

19

(1)

Vice-President in Charge of Volcanoes

20

(1)

Secret Agent X-9

21

(3)

Protein

24

(1)

End of the World Delight

25

(2)

The Jumping-off Place

27

(3)

When Automobiles Had Cut-Glass Vases

30

(2)

Merry Christmas

32

(3)

Back to Kindergarten

35

(2)

The Girl Pool

37

(2)

The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth

39

(3)

No More Mud

42

(2)

Ice-Nine

44

(3)

The Marines March on

47

(1)

Member of the Yellow Press

48

(2)

The Last Batch of Brownies

50

(2)

What a Wampeter is

52

(1)

The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker

53

(1)

What Gog is

54

(1)

Men from Mars

55

(3)

Mayonnaise

58

(2)

Gone, but not Forgotten

60

(1)

Only Sleeping

61

(2)

Another Breed

63

(1)

Dynamite Money

64

(2)

An Ungrateful Man

66

(3)

Vin-Dit

69

(4)

Hobby Shop

73

(4)

Meow

77

(2)

A Modern Major General

79

(2)

Barracuda Capital of the World

81

(1)

Fata Morgana

82

(2)

House of Hope and Mercy

84

(2)

A Karass Built for two

86

(2)

Bicycles for Afghanistan

88

(4)

The Demonstrator

92

(4)

Communist Sympthizers

96

(2)

Why Americans are Hated

98

(1)

The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar

99

(2)

Dynamic Tension

101

(2)

Just Like Saint Augustine

103

(1)

A Fish Pitched up by an Angry Sea

104

(5)

A Nice Midget

109

(1)

O.K., Mom

110

(4)

No Pain

114

(2)

The President of Fabri-Tek

116

(2)

Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, and Draft Dodgers

118

(1)

Never Index Your own Book

119

(4)

A Self-Supporting Squirrel Cage

123

(2)

The Queasy Dream

125

(2)

Tyranny with a Difference

127

(2)

Fasten your Seat Belts

129

(3)

An Underprivileged Nation

132

(2)

What a Corporal Was Worth

134

(2)

Why Hazel Wasn't Scared

136

(1)

Reverent and Free

137

(2)

Peace and Plenty

139

(2)

A Good Time to Come to San Lorenzo

141

(3)

The Strongest Thing There is

144

(3)

Hy-U-O-Ook-Kuhi

147

(2)

Hoon-Yera Mora-Toorz

149

(1)

A big Mosaic

150

(3)

Tutored by Bokonon

153

(1)

The Happiness of Being an American

154

(2)

The Pissant Hilton

156

(3)

Black Death

159

(4)

Cat's Cradle

163

(3)

Give my Regards to Albert Scweitzer

166

(2)

Julian Castle Agrees with Newt that Everything is Meaningless

168

(2)

Aspirin and Boko-Maru

170

(2)

Ring of Steel

172

(2)

Why McCabe's Soul Grew Coarse

174

(2)

The Waterfall Strainers

176

(4)

A white Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter

180

(3)

Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo

183

(2)

Dr. Schlichter Von Koenigswald Approaches the Break-Even Point

185

(2)

Blackout

187

(2)

A Pack of Foma

189

(2)

Two Little Jugs

191

(3)

The Cut of my Jib

194

(3)

Why Frank Couldn't be President

197

(2)

Duffle

199

(2)

Only one Catch

201

(2)

Mona

203

(2)

On the Poet's Celebration of his First Boko-Maru

205

(1)

How I Almost Lost my Mona

206

(4)

The Highest Mountain

210

(2)

I See the Hook

212

(1)

Bell, Book, and Chicken in a Hatbox

213

(3)

The Stinking Christian

216

(3)

Last Rites

219

(1)

Dyot Meet Mat

220

(3)

Down the Oubliette Goes Frank

223

(2)

Like my Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon

225

(2)

Enemies of Freedom

227

(3)

A Medical Opinion on the Effects of a Writers' Strike

230

(2)

Sulfathiazole

232

(3)

Pain-Killer

235

(2)

What Bokononists Say when they Commit Suicide

237

(2)

Feast your Eyes!

239

(1)

Frank Tells us what to do

240

(2)

Frank Defends Himself

242

(2)

The Fourteenth Book

244

(1)

Time out

245

(3)

Newt's Mother's Reticule

248

(2)

History

250

(2)

When I Felt the Bullet Enter my Heart

252

(5)

As it Happened

257

(2)

The Grand Ah-Whoom

259

(2)

Sanctuary

261

(2)

The Iron Maiden and the Oubliette

263

(4)

Mona Thanks me

267

(3)

To whom it may Concern

270

(3)

I am Slow to Answer

273

(2)

The Swiss Family Robinson

275

(1)

Of Mice and Men

276

(3)

Frank's Ant Farm

279

(3)

The Tasmanians

282

(2)

Soft Pipes, Play on

284

(2)

The end

286

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